Governor Clarence D. Martin last week appointed Ervin King, "home town boy" and master of the State Grange, to represent him at the inauguration of President Roosevelt at Washington, D. C., January 20.

When Representative Waldron of Washington state, former speaker of the house, expressed the belief that "The 1937 session of the state legislature should be able to transact all essential business and adjourn within 30 days," he voiced the prayer...

The first six administration measures, including the unemployment insurance bill and part of the state highway code, were before the Legislature today as Governor Martin started his program toward enactment.

(This is the ninth article in a series dealing with the tax delinquency and tax-title property problems of King County.) King County taxpayers' loss from tax-idle property may be dwarfed by the loss from millions of dollars' worth of property which...

Release of 5 convicted officers brings strong protest; men freed after only six months. Parole of five members of Seattle's "bluecoat burglary ring" from the Walla Walla penitentiary stirred a storm of protest on the floor of the senate today and...

State WPA officials paid a tour of inspection to the Spokane district office Thursday, talked to 200 timekeepers and foremen in the Hawthorne building and were honored guests at a banquet Thursday evening at the Dessert hotel. Present were Don G....

Chelan county legislator named on House contact committee to steer administration bills toward enactment. First of the long-awaited administration measures trickled into both houses of the legislature from the governor's office late yesterday.

Boise, Jan. 22. (AP) - Walter T. Lockwood, national emergency council director, reported today that federal allocations for Idaho during 1935 and 1936 totaled $40,989,886 and that $40,989,886 and that $36,224,416 was expended.

Two new state officials. - Among the nine elective state officers whose terms began January 1, there were only two new faces--Treasurer Phil H. Gallagher and Superintendent of Public Instruction Stanley F. Atwood.

Coulee dam may get $15,000,000. - Word received here from Senator Schwellenbach after the hearing before Budget Director Bell early last week intimates that prospects for the $15,000,000 appropriation to assure continuation of the Grand Coulee...

Governor Clarence D. Martin last week appointed Ervin King, "home town boy" and master of the State Grange, to represent him at the inauguration of President Roosevelt at Washington, D. C., January 20.

Sister states leading in lumber production. - Washington, Oregon and Idaho produced nearly 42 per cent of the total lumber cut of the United States in 1935, according to preliminary figures of the bureau of the census, the Pacific northwest forest...

Among the nine elective state officers whose terms began January 1, there were only two new faces--Treasurer Phil H. Gallagher and Superintendent of Public Instruction Stanley F. Atwood. Governor Clarence D. Martin, Lieutenant-Governor Victor A....